Since February 2023, artist, university lecturer, and internet culture writer Joshua Citarella has been conducting interviews with a wide array of subjects who have formed their politics out of internet subcultures. It would be a crude oversimplification to say their so-called “e-deologies” range far and wide across “the political spectrum,” as the real hallmark of an e-deology is not so much how right or left it is as its tendency to collect respective baroque idiosyncrasies and qualifications. These are not merely Republicans and Democrats, or conservatives and liberals, or even socialists and libertarians. These are self-identified “pan-constitutional monarchists,” “antidemocratic transhumanists”, “anarcho-primitivist electoralists,” “Islamo-nationalists”, “agrarian voluntarists,” “eco-fascists,” and many more seemingly infinite permutations of boutique ideas.
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